Babies see it coming
Friday, September 25, 2009 - 00:14
in Physics & Chemistry
Do infants only start to crawl once they are physically able to see danger coming? Or is it that because they are more mobile, they develop the ability to sense looming danger? According to Ruud van der Weel and Audrey van der Meer, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, infants' ability to see whether an object is approaching on a direct collision course, and when it is likely to collide, develops around the time they become more mobile. Their findings (1) have just been published online in the Springer journal Naturwissenschaften.